An eclectic mix of book and music reviews, ramblings and other flotsam and jetsom encountered on an expedition to find a place in the pre-Christian religious traditions, and practices of the British Isles.

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Skull

So, someone posted about finding a wonderful brass skull in a shop in Cornwall recently and a linke was posted to a picture. I wandered over to the link and then fiddled with the url until I managed to view the site and found the skull pictured here.

I liked it a lot and put in on my wish list for consideration at a much later date, say 2010. On Saturday, I went to visit my friends at Wicca Moon and, to my surprise the exact same skull has been delivered during the week. It was almost the first thing that caught my eye in the shop. Of course, I can't really spare the money this month, but I just had to have it once I held it in my hands. I immediately put it aside and purchased it just before I left. Sychronisity or what?

Festival Calendar

Là Fhèill Brìghde ~ A time to celebrate the end of winter, welcome the beginnings of spring, and the start of new life (and love), usually by the cleaning and purifying the home, and the blessing of animals and children.

Bealltainn ~ The start of the season of fertility.

Summer Solstice ~ A personal celebration wherein I "sit out" all night in contemplation of my ancestors, and how they might have viewed this time of the year, as the days now become shorter, and the nights longer, but the weather warmer.

Lùnastal ~ A time to contemplate blood, family, and honour and the coming harvest.

Samhainn ~ The end of summer and the beginning of winter; a time to honour the ancestors, of the family, older clans, countrymen, and pagan forebears.

Winter Solstice ~ A personal celebration wherein I "sit out" all night to ponder how my ancestors might have endured, and considered during the longest night and shortest day of the year.